Ugly s Electrical References Reviews

It asks you every single time, even if you have not closed UglysElectricalReferences , like if you have just switched apps for literally 2 seconds, “Please like our app! Please leave a review!!” Your search ability and calculator text box capabilities are horrible. Just buy the book people, UglysElectricalReferences is not good unless you leave your book in the back of your car. Take no for an answer app team, respect hitting the little “no I do not want to leave a review button”.

This went from my go to reference to a source of frustration. With the last update all my old bookmarks had to be replaced because they no longer sent me to the right reference. When I bookmark a chart it places the bookmark on the section not that actual chart like it would in the previous version. I’m finding the information just not as easily as I did before. I also have to be careful that I am on the right reference where before I clicked a bookmark and I was instantly on the reference I wanted.

It has the usual solid, key information that the Ugly’s book has, however UglysElectricalReferences functionality is terrible in three key respects. One, the search function is so basic that it’s almost completely useless. NEC article number references won’t show up in search results, as well as any number of other basic key words and table titles. A pdf document is more searchable, never mind that a book index would contain more “searchable”information. Two, the bookmarks function doesn’t work at all...if I bookmark a page, when I go back to the bookmark... it takes me to the wrong page every time, even though the title of the bookmark is correct. It’s very frustrating!...Especially for something that is not free. And three, sometimes when I scroll through a section, UglysElectricalReferences will ”glitch” and send me to a completely different section with no way to get back to the section that I was originally looking at without going back through the menu titles and subsections and re-selecting my original page. I’m not sure why UglysElectricalReferences lacks the basic functionality that it itself indicates that it is capable of handling. My version utilizes the latest update. What’s the point of buying UglysElectricalReferences if it doesn’t even work as advertised. I don’t know that I would buy UglysElectricalReferences if I could go back...it’s failure to work as advertised makes it a hard sell over just getting the book.

I find the book very useful, and I find it even better to have it right on my phone. The calculators are handy and I use the conduit bending section a fair amount. I’d give five stars if all of the text and diagrams from the book were available offline. It would be nice if you could download everything using wifi and then have it available without using data or needing good service. But I can always go get the book.

I find UglysElectricalReferences helpful. It covers a lot of detail. I wish I could put in specific article numbers and get that information on UglysElectricalReferences directly from the NEC book. I wish the tables and charts would allow me to zoom in versus having to take a snapshot photo of them to be able to zoom in.

at this exact moment i can’t for the life of me get UglysElectricalReferences to work. here’s what i mean, so me and my fellow classmates both bought UglysElectricalReferences so we wouldn’t have to carry our ugly books with us to class. now UglysElectricalReferences works for my buddy fine when ever he uses the search function by typing in key words for specific section. but when i try to search up the same topic nothing happens i could literally type in the same exact word he just input and nothing would show up for me. but for him it pulls up each section with keyword in it.

Bought this about 3 years ago, have used it at least once a week since then to verify details of my work. If you made a bookmark it would work sometimes, but bookmarking seems to have improved recently. Makes referencing a lot easier.

The rating pop up reminder should be disabled after opening for the first or second time. Maybe this review will here will stop it.

The videos are top notch. Look forwarding to expanding that later. A condensed residential version of Ugly’s would be nice for the future. Remove that annoying pop up and it’s 5 stars.

Great app to use but it will only be helpful if you already have some knowledge in the electrical field.
Would have gave it 5 stars but it asks every time you open to rate it. Hopefully after clicking not sure for 2 years it will stop after writing a review?

Overall I tend to prefer book reference material but the overall quick reference available in this ePub is sufficient enough and job site preferred as the pocket book burdens my tool pouch as it is not always needed. I rated this at 4 stars due to lack of ePub table reference material listed but not available.

Only reason for the four stars is because every time you open UglysElectricalReferences it requires you to click twice that you don’t wanna do a review right now. Very annoying especially when you’re trying to use UglysElectricalReferences .

This is a great tool. You don’t have to worry about forgetting it and no more dog earring pages to find them again, with the bookmark option. I also have the hand book, but I think this is better. The search bar is amazing, plus the built in calculators! I haven’t used it much, but expect to in the future.

I have the physical Ugly’s book and am currently in school learning the trade. I enjoy the mobile version and like that I can just search up topics but UglysElectricalReferences should be improved a bit. When I set up a bookmark and then have to go back to it, it won’t be in the same place I set the bookmark. It jumps a few pages before or after where I set up the bookmark. Overall though it’s most certainly worth it and I’m sure I’ll use the mobile version more than the physical once I’m out in the field.

Let’s face it, the load and pressure in the electrical business is hard enough at times. With all that we have to know and remember is madness on some projects. UglysElectricalReferences really is the ‘Let’s make sure!’

UglysElectricalReferences has been a huge help! Today we needed to do a 4 point saddle and we weren’t sure how to do it exactly and I opened UglysElectricalReferences and there it was! Even a video tutorial for us visual learners! Came in handy when I needed it! Definitely recommend to any level electrician because doesn’t matter how high you climb the ladder we’re all capable of forgetting things. Trust me I know!

I bought UglysElectricalReferences to use as a supplement while I am taking an Electrical training course with my local IBEW.

I highly recommend UglysElectricalReferences. The videos included are detailed and very helpful.

It’s only 12 bucks when I purchased and it’s well worth it.

I’m an apprentice electrician, I used to have the actual uglys book, but with UglysElectricalReferences I can access information alot quicker. Especially at a job site, where time is money. A journeyman who I was working with told me to get UglysElectricalReferences instead because if I don’t have the book with me at work, and I really need to know something, then I have to go on google which takes FOREVER to get factual information. Versus on my phone, I’m going to have my phone with me where ever I go. Therefore I have uglys references with me 24/7. Sometimes I read it when I’m not at work because I constantly want to learn new information. It’s definitely worth the money!

I have the pocket reference book and I gotta say, UglysElectricalReferences is a lot more convenient. Also has calculators built in which makes it more convenient. All the sections are searchable so you find what you’re looking for faster. If you even so much as think about touching an electrical circuit, even if just for fun, you’re gonna want UglysElectricalReferences.

I really like the calculator function on here. You can put in all of the values and you don’t need to memorize the equations when you do it. I like the ugly book for a study reference still, but I love UglysElectricalReferences for when I’m actually doing work and need an answer now.

I originally gave UglysElectricalReferences 4 stars when it first came out but stated it needed a lot of functionality upgrades but has since then added everything I said was wrong with it. Now with pinch to zoom, completely searchable topics and text, and instructional videos such as in the conduit bending section, and pdf versions of the newest Ugly’s version, UglysElectricalReferences is as good as having the hard copy of the book in your hands at all times, but quicker for topics look up!!